Michigan's Adventure Future Plans
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QAF's season finally is this coming Sunday. What's going to happen to Ted and Emmit?
Then I would try and add like 5-7 new water slides and focus on the water park a little.
Next would be another flat ride and a new roller coaster. Either an inverted impulse coaster like wicked twister around 200ft. tall or a regular one like Superman: Ultimate escape.
Then a compact B&M floorless coaster or a B&M hyper coaster like Nitro but even better!
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QAF's season finally is this coming Sunday. What's going to happen to Ted and Emmit?
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Judgement, Superiority (ego), intolerance, and Hostility.........Makes CB the "Jenny Jones for "Coaster Trekkies" LOL
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Judgement, Superiority (ego), intolerance, and Hostility.........Makes CB the "Jenny Jones for "Coaster Trekkies" LOL
It may mean a capital investment so large that the other parks see very little change next season. But it will pay off.
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Judgement, Superiority (ego), intolerance, and Hostility.........Makes CB the "Jenny Jones for "Coaster Trekkies" LOL
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mOOSH [finally home from ACE Con]
I think that we will see a smaller type/family style coaster before we see a major coaster go in. An example would be an impulse or a themed mine train coaster or dare I say....a boomerang, yuck.
If they add anether major coaster to the park, there would not be much of anything else to do at this park if you came looking for rides, dont get me wrong, wwc and corkscrew are ok, but lack high thrills.
Remember that if you go to a park and have a bad first impresion, than you are more likely not to return and/or tell others of your experiance at the park. So that is why they need to work on other areas of the park before spending millions on a high draw ride that is going to bring a boatload of people to the park for the first time.
I love what cedar fair has done with the park so far, and I hope they keep up the good work. They just need to work on it a little faster.....remember, you have to spend money to make money.
Speaking of attendance being down, I don't recall seeing a TR for Timbersfest. Anyone go?
I was there on the Saturday, but had to leave before dark. The place was fairly quiet in the afternoon... fair number of people in the waterpark and walking around, but 1-2 train waits on all the coasters, walkons on the flats. Maybe 50 or so enthusiasts showed up for the Timbersfest afternoon picnic. Made the enthusiasts happy, but I hope this isn't representative of attendence for the year.
I got a little bored by late afternoon (sacrilege!) since I didn't bring a swimsuit, so I started roaming around the park looking at stuff. The landscaping looks really nice, although they need more trees along the lake and at the north end of the park. My suggestions would be to add a Camp Snoopy, an enclosed restaurant, and a few new flat rides. Maybe in a year or two, add a mid-price coaster. Oh, and as Crazy mentioned, a walkway from ST to Adventure Falls would be nice, especially if they add something along it.
Does anyone else get the impression that the railroad's layout is purely temporary? It just feels unfinished, somehow. Maybe it's the small layout, I don't know.
However, I think that in order to really start bringing in bigger crowds they need to do more than just add those two upgrades, and it's about time for another large coaster. I mean, Corkscrew is your only steel coaster? Come on! It cut the mustard for me when I was 10, but now it's barely even a thrill ride blip.
I live in MI, and MIA is technically my home park, but in reality it pales in comparison to most theme parks, and I make one trip there a year as opposed to three or more at CP.
I would love to be able to rave about MIA to people, and go there a bunch of times a year, but next to ST and their waterpark, I find nothing much there that really grabs me and makes me want to come back.
Everybody here (meaning locally to MI) thinks it's high time for a new ride, and agree that it only makes sense to get a new one soon. It doesn't take a rocket scientist or a buisness major to understand the simple concept that it takes money to make money.
CF has been building infrastructure for a number of years now, and it's time to add a major coaster to beef up the park, and increase interest in the place.
Restraunts and midways can be built simultaniously with a big new coaster, and should be added. In fact, build the new midway connecting the park, put a sit down restraunt there, and also put a record setting B&M Hyper. It could be a whole new section of the park, and if you don't think that would boost attendance (and money!) then you're crazy!
There will be plenty of time in subsequent years to improve the kiddie area, and I'm sure they will do so. But at this point, the only sensible thing to do is build a new coaster, and I believe that's exactly what they're going to do.
OK, flame away! ;)
Take care and God bless!
On a semi-related note, does anyone else think WW's station has the most gorgeous view around? The view around the lake, wooden setting, and constant breeze has to make it the most coveted spot for ride ops :) Maybe they could build a "wooden" restaurant on the east shore north of WW.
You're obviously *not* a business major, are you?
mOOSH
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Judgement, Superiority (ego), intolerance, and Hostility.........Makes CB the "Jenny Jones for "Coaster Trekkies" LOL
Closed topic.
